Improvement in hay-carriers



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HAY-CARRIER.

Patented April 4, 1875.

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UNITED STATES LA VERNE W. NoYEs, oF BATAVIA, ILLiNoIs.

IM'PRovE-MENT IN HAV-CARRIERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 175,736, dated April 4, 1876; application tiled January 29, 1876.

To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, LA VERNE W. Noves, of Batavia, in the county of Kane and State of Illinois, have invented'a new and valuable Improvement in Hay-Carriers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l ofthe drawings is a representation of a side elevation, part sectional, of my hay-carrier, and Fig. 2 is a detail view of the same.

. This invention has relation to improvements in hay-carriers; and the nature of the invention consists in means, substantially as hereinafter described, for holding the carriage in position during the loading of the fork and the raising ofthe same to the top of the mow, and for automatically releasing the said carrier when the loaded fork has reached the desired height, so that it may be run into the baril.

In the annexed drawings, the letter A designates a strong X-shaped lnetallic carrierframe, and B is a track of suit-able dimensions, consisting of a single rail, and arranged in the peak of a barn, in the usual manner. The upper-ends of this frame are provided with oblong rounded lugs c at right angles to the plane ot' the frame, around which are grouped a sufficient number of anti-friction rollers, b, which are held in position by means of a metallic cap, c, passed over them, and confined in position by means of a pin, d. These pins extend through the lugs c, where they project through the said caps, thus conning' the latter in position. The under sides of caps c are cut away, as shown at e, so as to expose or uncover the peripheries of the antifriction wheels or rollers b, so that when the carrier is placed upon the rail the said rollers wlll rest upon the same, and will consequently allow the carrier to run thereon with the least possible friction. As shown in Fig. l, the shape of projection a is oblong, and its upper and under sides are dat, and parallel` number, as they conform to the shape of the lugs or projections around which they are grouped. The effect of this construction is that the friction caused by the passage back and forth over the rail of the carrier will be reduced to a lninimum. The lower arms of the X-shaped carrierframe are provided, the one with a grooved pulley-wheehf, and the other with a vertically-vibrating arm or grapple, G, to the free end of which the hoistingrope D is secured. This rope passes over pulley-wheelf, and sustains a pulley, g, carrying a hook, to which the fork is secured. The

short arm of this lever G is provided with a hook, h, the object of which will hereafter appear, and the said lever when not under strain will gravitate into the position shown in Fig. `l, when it will hold a two-pronged metallic catch, D', in a horizontal position in engagement with a Ushaped metallic stop, h', secured to the under side ofthe rail. Catch D', when engaged, will hold the prongsjj ofthe stop between those t' i of the catch, as shown in Fig. 1; but when the fork is loaded, and is raised by drawing up the hoisting-rope, lever C will be raised, causing its hooked eud It to engage with a gravita-ting hooked loop, E, pivoted to the catch D', when the free end of the latter will be jerked o the stop L, and the carrier will be free to run into the baril. In this position the prong c' on the free end of theY catch will be lower than the one on its pivoted end, the former being free from the stop, and the latter very nearly on the same level, as in the position first described.

The fork being unloaded, the carrier will be run out, and the inner prong i of the catch D will strike against the stop h, causing the angular upper end h of the hook C to be released from a correspondingly-shaped notch,

to receive theangnlar pper end of the said lever, when the latter is in a vertical position, and by this means the said catch will be held held to its engagement with the stop until the raising ofthe power end of' the lever jerks the catch free from the stop.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a haycarrier, the combination of the rounded oblong projections a, the anti-friction rollers b, grouped around the same, and the confining-caps c, substantially as specified.

2. In combination with the double-pronged stop h on the rail B, the vertically-vibrating double-pronged catch D ou the carrier-frame,

the hooked loop E, and the hooked vertically vibrating lever O, substantially as specified.

. 3. In combirration, the verticallyvibratory cateh'D, pendent loop E, and the verticallyvibrating hooked lever U, operated by the raising of the said lever to disengage the catch -f'rom a stop on the rail, substantially as speci- Witnesses:

JOHN CRAWFORD,A DARIUS HULL, J r. 

